Meanings
- Exonym for in the territory in southern Xinjiang administered by the New 36th Division of the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army from 1934 to 1937.
It is believed that these plans include the establishment of six socialist states: Manchuria, Chinese Turkestan, Tunganistan, Mongolia, and two others.
1949, Political Information: Soviet and Chinese Communist Conferences in Harbin, Central Intelligence Agency, page 11 more example
Following his withdrawal to Khotan in July 1934, Ma Hu-shan gradually consolidated his hold over the remote oases of the southern Tarim Basin, effectively establishing a Tungan satrapy where Hui Muslims ruled as colonial masters over their Turkic-speaking Muslim subjects ... The territory thus administered from 1934 to 1937 was given the entirely appropriate name of 'Tunganistan' by Walther Heissig.
1986, “The Role of the Hui Muslims (Tungans) in Republican Sinkiang”, in Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949, CUP Archive, page 128
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